Friday, August 29, 2008

713. Epic - Patrick Kavanagh

. I have lived in important places, timesWhen great events were decided, who ownedThat half a rood of rock, a no-man's landSurrounded by our pitchfork-armed claims.I heard the Duffys shouting "Damn your soul!"And old McCabe stripped to the waist, seenStep the plot defying blue cast-steel -"Here is the march along these iron stones."That was the year of the Munich bother. WhichWas more important? I inclinedTo lose my faith in Ballyrush and GortinTill Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind.He said: I made the Iliad from suchA local row. Gods make their own importance.